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"Flesh and machines explores the startlingly reciprocal connection between humans and their technological brethren, and explains how this relationship is being redefined as humans develop increasingly complex machines. The impetus to build machines that exhibit lifelike behaviors stretches back centuries, but for the last fifteen years much of this work has been done in Rodney Brooks's laboratory at MIT.
His goal is not simply to build machines that are like humans but to alter our perceptions of the capabilities of robots. Our current attitude toward intelligent robots, he asserts, is simply a reflection of our view of ourselves.".
"In Flesh and Machines, Brooks challenges that view by suggesting that human nature can be seen to possess the essential characteristics of a machine. Our instinctive rejection of that idea, he believes, is itself a conditioned response: we have programmed ourselves to believe in our "tribal specialness" as proof of our uniqueness." "Provocative, persuasive, compelling, and unprecedented, Flesh and Machines presents a vision of our future and our future selves."--BOOK JACKET.
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
February 4, 2003, Vintage
in English
037572527X 9780375725272
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
February 12, 2002, Pantheon, Pantheon Books
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0375420797 9780375420795
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
Feb 05, 2002, Alfred A. Knopf
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De kunstmatige mens: hoe machines ons veranderen
2002, De Bezige Bij
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